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namespace arrow {

/// \addtogroup nested-builders
///
/// @{

/// \brief Base class for union array builds.
///
/// Note that while we subclass ArrayBuilder, as union types do not have a
/// validity bitmap, the bitmap builder member of ArrayBuilder is not used.
class ARROW_EXPORT BasicUnionBuilder : public ArrayBuilder {
 public:
  Status FinishInternal(std::shared_ptr<ArrayData>* out) override;

  /// \cond FALSE
  using ArrayBuilder::Finish;
  /// \endcond

  Status Finish(std::shared_ptr<UnionArray>* out) { return FinishTyped(out); }

  /// \brief Make a new child builder available to the UnionArray
  ///
  /// \param[in] new_child the child builder
  /// \param[in] field_name the name of the field in the union array type
  /// if type inference is used
  /// \return child index, which is the "type" argument that needs
  /// to be passed to the "Append" method to add a new element to
  /// the union array.
  int8_t AppendChild(const std::shared_ptr<ArrayBuilder>& new_child,
                     const std::string& field_name = "");

  std::shared_ptr<DataType> type() const override;

  int64_t length() const override { return types_builder_.length(); }

 protected:
  BasicUnionBuilder(MemoryPool* pool,
                    const std::vector<std::shared_ptr<ArrayBuilder>>& children,
                    const std::shared_ptr<DataType>& type);

  int8_t NextTypeId();

  std::vector<std::shared_ptr<Field>> child_fields_;
  std::vector<int8_t> type_codes_;
  UnionMode::type mode_;

  std::vector<ArrayBuilder*> type_id_to_children_;
  std::vector<int> type_id_to_child_id_;
  // for all type_id < dense_type_id_, type_id_to_children_[type_id] != nullptr
  int8_t dense_type_id_ = 0;
  TypedBufferBuilder<int8_t> types_builder_;
};

/// \class DenseUnionBuilder
///
/// This API is EXPERIMENTAL.
class ARROW_EXPORT DenseUnionBuilder : public BasicUnionBuilder {
 public:
  /// Use this constructor to initialize the UnionBuilder with no child builders,
  /// allowing type to be inferred. You will need to call AppendChild for each of the
  /// children builders you want to use.
  explicit DenseUnionBuilder(MemoryPool* pool)
      : BasicUnionBuilder(pool, {}, dense_union(FieldVector{})), offsets_builder_(pool) {}

  /// Use this constructor to specify the type explicitly.
  /// You can still add child builders to the union after using this constructor
  DenseUnionBuilder(MemoryPool* pool,
                    const std::vector<std::shared_ptr<ArrayBuilder>>& children,
                    const std::shared_ptr<DataType>& type)
      : BasicUnionBuilder(pool, children, type), offsets_builder_(pool) {}

  Status AppendNull() final {
    const int8_t first_child_code = type_codes_[0];
    ArrayBuilder* child_builder = type_id_to_children_[first_child_code];
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(types_builder_.Append(first_child_code));
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(
        offsets_builder_.Append(static_cast<int32_t>(child_builder->length())));
    // Append a null arbitrarily to the first child
    return child_builder->AppendNull();
  }

  Status AppendNulls(int64_t length) final {
    const int8_t first_child_code = type_codes_[0];
    ArrayBuilder* child_builder = type_id_to_children_[first_child_code];
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(types_builder_.Append(length, first_child_code));
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(
        offsets_builder_.Append(length, static_cast<int32_t>(child_builder->length())));
    // Append just a single null to the first child
    return child_builder->AppendNull();
  }

  Status AppendEmptyValue() final {
    const int8_t first_child_code = type_codes_[0];
    ArrayBuilder* child_builder = type_id_to_children_[first_child_code];
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(types_builder_.Append(first_child_code));
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(
        offsets_builder_.Append(static_cast<int32_t>(child_builder->length())));
    // Append an empty value arbitrarily to the first child
    return child_builder->AppendEmptyValue();
  }

  Status AppendEmptyValues(int64_t length) final {
    const int8_t first_child_code = type_codes_[0];
    ArrayBuilder* child_builder = type_id_to_children_[first_child_code];
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(types_builder_.Append(length, first_child_code));
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(
        offsets_builder_.Append(length, static_cast<int32_t>(child_builder->length())));
    // Append just a single empty value to the first child
    return child_builder->AppendEmptyValue();
  }

  /// \brief Append an element to the UnionArray. This must be followed
  ///        by an append to the appropriate child builder.
  ///
  /// \param[in] next_type type_id of the child to which the next value will be appended.
  ///
  /// The corresponding child builder must be appended to independently after this method
  /// is called.
  Status Append(int8_t next_type) {
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(types_builder_.Append(next_type));
    if (type_id_to_children_[next_type]->length() == kListMaximumElements) {
      return Status::CapacityError(
          "a dense UnionArray cannot contain more than 2^31 - 1 elements from a single "
          "child");
    }
    auto offset = static_cast<int32_t>(type_id_to_children_[next_type]->length());
    return offsets_builder_.Append(offset);
  }

  Status AppendArraySlice(const ArraySpan& array, int64_t offset,
                          int64_t length) override;

  Status FinishInternal(std::shared_ptr<ArrayData>* out) override;

 private:
  TypedBufferBuilder<int32_t> offsets_builder_;
};

/// \class SparseUnionBuilder
///
/// This API is EXPERIMENTAL.
class ARROW_EXPORT SparseUnionBuilder : public BasicUnionBuilder {
 public:
  /// Use this constructor to initialize the UnionBuilder with no child builders,
  /// allowing type to be inferred. You will need to call AppendChild for each of the
  /// children builders you want to use.
  explicit SparseUnionBuilder(MemoryPool* pool)
      : BasicUnionBuilder(pool, {}, sparse_union(FieldVector{})) {}

  /// Use this constructor to specify the type explicitly.
  /// You can still add child builders to the union after using this constructor
  SparseUnionBuilder(MemoryPool* pool,
                     const std::vector<std::shared_ptr<ArrayBuilder>>& children,
                     const std::shared_ptr<DataType>& type)
      : BasicUnionBuilder(pool, children, type) {}

  /// \brief Append a null value.
  ///
  /// A null is appended to the first child, empty values to the other children.
  Status AppendNull() final {
    const auto first_child_code = type_codes_[0];
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(types_builder_.Append(first_child_code));
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(type_id_to_children_[first_child_code]->AppendNull());
    for (int i = 1; i < static_cast<int>(type_codes_.size()); ++i) {
      ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(type_id_to_children_[type_codes_[i]]->AppendEmptyValue());
    }
    return Status::OK();
  }

  /// \brief Append multiple null values.
  ///
  /// Nulls are appended to the first child, empty values to the other children.
  Status AppendNulls(int64_t length) final {
    const auto first_child_code = type_codes_[0];
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(types_builder_.Append(length, first_child_code));
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(type_id_to_children_[first_child_code]->AppendNulls(length));
    for (int i = 1; i < static_cast<int>(type_codes_.size()); ++i) {
      ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(
          type_id_to_children_[type_codes_[i]]->AppendEmptyValues(length));
    }
    return Status::OK();
  }

  Status AppendEmptyValue() final {
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(types_builder_.Append(type_codes_[0]));
    for (int8_t code : type_codes_) {
      ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(type_id_to_children_[code]->AppendEmptyValue());
    }
    return Status::OK();
  }

  Status AppendEmptyValues(int64_t length) final {
    ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(types_builder_.Append(length, type_codes_[0]));
    for (int8_t code : type_codes_) {
      ARROW_RETURN_NOT_OK(type_id_to_children_[code]->AppendEmptyValues(length));
    }
    return Status::OK();
  }

  /// \brief Append an element to the UnionArray. This must be followed
  ///        by an append to the appropriate child builder.
  ///
  /// \param[in] next_type type_id of the child to which the next value will be appended.
  ///
  /// The corresponding child builder must be appended to independently after this method
  /// is called, and all other child builders must have null or empty value appended.
  Status Append(int8_t next_type) { return types_builder_.Append(next_type); }

  Status AppendArraySlice(const ArraySpan& array, int64_t offset,
                          int64_t length) override;
};

/// @}

}  // namespace arrow

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Q: Get element by id using special characters with jQuery I am new to jQuery, I need to get the element value from this input field
<input type="number" onkeypress="preventSomeKeys(event)" onchange="setTwoNumberDecimal(this)" name="fee_ctv_omp_percent" id="fee_ctv['omp_percent']" value="0.00" class="w-100" step="0.01" style="border:none;">

as you can see the id contains special chars.
I write this code,
var test2 = $("#fee_ctv['omp_percent']");

and this is the results:
Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: #fee_ctv['omp_percent']

Is their a way to get the element by id in this scenario?

A: Try with:
var test2 = $("#fee_ctv\\['omp_percent\\']");

For more info check https://api.jquery.com/id-selector/

A: You can use the escape selector:
$.escapeSelector("fee_ctv['omp_percent']")
and put it in your js like this:
var test2 = $(`#${$.escapeSelector("fee_ctv['omp_percent']")}`);

working codepen
This way, you don't have to manually escape every entry.
link to docs

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Q: Django - auth user with the email domain and no password I have a request to alter a standard Django login of email and password to allow any user login without a password, but only if they are on a certain domain ... e.g. somebody@example.com ... where the user is allowed in due to them being on the correct domain.
Any suggestions?

A: Assuming that 'being on the correct domain' means they have an email address for the relevant domain, you could write a custom authentication backend that

*

*looks to check that there is a single user with that email address (and not more than one, which will also mean updating registration flows to ensure email addresses are guaranteed unique, plus possibly checking your DB for duplicates already, just in case)

*gets that User and splits off the domain of their email address to check it against a list/whatever of allowed no-password-required domains

*return the User from your custom auth backend as if the normal password check had been satisfied, even though it was never checked with check_password(). The Django docs and various djangosnippets.org snippets show how to do this.

In addition:

*

*you will have to use a new/overridden authentication Form class for the admin login view that doesn't require a password field (but still shows it for non-special logins), so that it doesn't complain if there is no password entered.

And finally:

*

*get religion, if you don't already have it

*pray to your G/god(s) that no one else learns that the site that will allow no-password authentication with an email address, and especially that they don't also get hold of the email address(es) in question, particularly if your site holds ANY personal data about third parties or has to be PCI-DSS compliant etc, etc.

*strongly consider saying 'No' to your client/user/manager/whoever requested this, for the reason immediately above. Passwords are used for a reason.

Or, finally, finally:

*

*skip all of the above and tell your client/user/manager about some of the various password storage tools out there - eg this and this

A: If your user has an openid with the email somebody@example.com then you can use an OpenId solution (say Django-openid; there are others too) to verify his identity and allow him access.
If that is unlikely, then you'll need to find a custom way of ensuring that the user is who he claims to be.

A: Somehow like this:
if cleaned_data['email'].endswith('@example.com'):
    user = None
    try:
        user = User.objects.get(email = cleaned_data['email'])
    except:
        pass
    if user:
        login(request, user)

Your concept allows everyone knowing or guessing one of the affected email-addresses to login without using a password!
Best regards!


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Another day of trial and anxiety has come, all nature seems cheerful, the skies bright and clear and the weather very cool for the season, and after Breakfast as I could not go to town I walked to the Picket station near the Graveyard, gave one of them a letter to take to the P.O. for me and asked him to inquire for letters there for me, I sat there some time with them and on my return made Mr. Marks (at Col. Brumby's House) family a long visit where I met two Federal officers, there I learnt that the report of the Federal Army having entered Atlanta some days ago was untrue, and that they were still out of it up to yesterday evening, that the fighting on Thursday and Saturday was very severe and the loss large on both sides, that on Thursday Gen'l McPherson (one of the best of the Fed. Gen'ls) was killed and Gen'l Hardee was killed on Saturday and a large number of other officers on both sides, and the sacrifice of men great on both sides, how this needless war is spreading mourning and distress throughout our once prosperous and almost perfectly happy county–if the politicians were out of the way, how soon could the afflicted people reconcile their differences, and terminate this appalling and wicked sacrifice of Life and happiness. One of the officers (Capt. Krif) who I met at Mr. Marks' seeing my great anxiety about our dear little boy, very kindly offered to examine among the prisoners whenever they come up, to learn if he should be among them, should he ever be one I will follow him and share his fate wherever he go, for this purpose he wrote down his mane and command, I still hope however, that the Cadets may be stationed at the West Point Bridge. It is reported that 1100 Conf. Prisoners came up today. Some difficulties seem to be apprehended above that Gen'l Rosseau's Cavalry which had just reached here from Ala. and expected to remain here at rest for 2 or 3 weeks was hurried off on Saturday evening and a large Cavalry force passed up on the Atlanta road on Saturday evening. We are kept in perfect ignorance of the causes of these moves–an old man (Hendricks) and his two little boys came some miles today with corn on their backs to grind on our mill. I gave them about 1 peck of Rough Rice. Mr. Sheppard made me a visit this afternoon and so did Mrs. Brown, but neither had any news worth recording. Mrs. Brown related her troubles and losses but all did not amount to much excepting her cow, and knives and forks–her condition now is nearly Robberproof, excepting her little garden, which she says has been spared. In the evening I went to the Picket Line to inquire if they had any letter for me, but they had inquired and found none. I returned to my solitary home for the night.
We got a mail yesterday for the first time since leaving the Chattahoochie & among the letters were two from father, & one from you, telling about the Rifle & finding fault because I do not write longer letters, which is I think, a little ungenerous, seeing that I improve every opportunity to send you news of us. You must remember that my time is not my own, that I have duties to perform which I cannot neglect without injury to the service in which I am engaged, & which duties, at present, take up very nearly all my available time.
There are hundreds of incidents occurring here daily that would be of great interest to you, & to myself in after years, if I could have the chance to record them in either diary or correspondence, but after all, this is only a little matter compared to the real, earnest work, which it is our business to perform. So don't grumble at short, but be thankfull [sic] you get any. My memory is pretty good, & with the assistance of my diary I will be able to give you many an interesting incident when I have a chance.
However, as we are doing nothing today of much account, having built our fort yesterday, & as you have not yet had from us a recital of our adventures since leaving the Chattahoochie, I will give a brief resume of them up to the present. On the morning of the 16th, we were roused at 2 O'clock with orders to withdraw the Guns from the fort overlooking the Chattahoochie, limber up, & prepare to march. This was done, & at daylight our Corps was on the road to Marietta, our Division in the advance, stopped in the middle of the day, & rested till 5 in the afternoon, then resumed march & stopped for the night near Marietta. Took up line of march early next morning & passed through town on the Roswell road, which latter place we reached in the afternoon, pushed through it, crossed the River on bridge that the 16th Corps put in a week before, & halted 4 miles this side, having made about 20 miles. On the 18th & 19th, we made slow progress toward Decatur, camping on the night of the 19th within 4 miles. Next day passed through Decatur, leaving the 16th Corps there, our Corps taking the advance, & when 2 miles from town on the Atlanta road formed line of Battle & advanced slowly. At almost noon our Inft'y ran on a Rebel Battery & stopped. The Genl. sent back by all the other Batteries of the Division, (we were marching in the Rear), & ordered us up to silence the Reb Guns. Advanced & took position on a hill, along which ran a road through the pasture, at 1800 yds. distance from the Enemy's Battery, unlimbered under their fire, got up the Hotchkiss shell from the Limbers & opened as the boys say, "for God's Sake." They had the Range on us from the start, as they had measured the ground before falling back, & slapped the shells right into us from the first shot, while we had to fire several rounds before we could get the elevation, as the ground is very deceiving, but we kept raising it till we knew what was wanted, & then you could have seen some fine practice. The Action continued for about 50 minutes, during which time each of our pieces fired about 40 Rds, when the Johnnies could stand it no longer & withdrew. Gen'l McPherson came up & told the Capt. he never saw a prettier Artillery duel, and told us also what we had not observed ourselves, that one of our shells knocked one of their Guns up on end which we afterwards found to be true when our fellows took the hill on which the Battery had been, & saw the broken "Stick" of one of their pieces. I never want to see shells fly thicker than they did at as there, & it is a marvel that none of the men were seriously hurt. Four of our fancy horses were killed, & another wounded, three of them by our shell, which burst under the Limber, throwing splinters & gravel right in the Captain's face, one piece struck the top of my Limber chest close to W., who was giving out Ammnt'n. A shell burst under the trail of the 5th Piece, tearing it badly & knocking down No. 3, who was serving vent, another unexploded one ricochetted (pro. ricoshayed) & struck the wheel of my piece, doing no damage, but coming very close to Nos. 2 & 4 on that side. Another struck at the feet, almost, of my No. 1 & exploded, enveloping him in a cloud of dust. I was standing close by watching the effect of my shots & when the dust cleared I looked for O'Neal expecting to see him stretched out but there he was, erect in the position of "Ready," which command had just been given when the shell came among us. I admired his coolness so much that I immediately grasped his hand, with a "Bully for you old boy." I could not ask men to stand up under heavy fire any better than did the fellows of my Gun Detachment. I cannot recount half the "hair breadth 'scapes" we had, but you will see we had a hot time of it. When the Enemy's Battery was withdrawn our 2 Divisions of Inft'y advanced & some skirmishing took place in which Genl. Gresham was wounded in front of the Battery. On the night of the 20th we dug little works for the Guns, but did not fire a shot next day, as they put other Batteries in position in front of us. About 9 A.M. of the 21st, our whole Line, (that is of the Corps) advanced, & charged the Rebel works, lost a large number of men in killed & wounded, took a lot of prisoners & part of the enemy's works, & established the Line within close distance. John Schaller was wounded in this charge, in which his Regt. captured the 21st Ga., but suffered severely. I sent you & his wife particulars of the event, & will only add that I saw him yesterday & both wounds are doing well, his appetite is good & so are his spirits. We are having beautiful weather for the wounded, cool days & chilly nights, which seems almost provident for it has been so only since the heavy fighting began.
This charge I am telling about was right in front of us & we saw the whole of it, but were forbidden to fire a shot, although we wanted much to assist our gallant Infantry fellows, who were under a galling fire from the same Battery we had silenced in another place. If the Genl. had only let Clayton put us in position where he wanted to, we could have stopped the fire of the confounded scamps. But I must get on, that afternoon our Battery was moved out to the extreme Left of the Line & we threw up slight works on the extreme flank. But we did not have enough Range for Rifled Guns, so the Chief of artillery ordered us out in the evening, & the 2nd Regular Battery with 12 pdr Light Guns went into our works, while we went back & took position in a fort in front of the hill from which we had silenced the Rebel Battery the day before, left our horses harnessed all night, & in the morning found that the Rebs had left their works in front of us, whereupon we unharnessed, & the Inftry advanced a half mile, till the Enemy's Battery began shelling them. Then we had orders to harness & be ready to move to the front, got ready & limbered up the Guns, took an early dinner, & shortly after began to hear dropping shots in our rear. Were told that it was Wheeller's Cavalry playing smash with our Corps train. I jumped on my horse and rode out on the field in front where our fellows were scattered around looking at the bodies of the killed, warned them all to their posts, & spurred back in time to see a Brigade & 2 Batteries of the 16th Corps come up in double quick & form line in the rear of our Battery, facing to the rear. They had not more than got into position when our pickets were driven in, & the Rebel Line advanced,. The 2 Batteries, 14th Ohio, & Co. "H" 1st Mo. opened on them, & the Inftry line soon was engaged heavily, first the Rebs would yell & charge till they came within 50 yds of the Battery, when the fire would be too much for them & they would waver, then our chaps would cheer & charge with the bayonet, fall back again when the enemy rallied, & let the canister play into them, and so it went, till the last time the Johnnies charged when they brought their flag out in plain sight of us, so close to the 14th Ohio that the smoke of their Guns dashed over it, the Canister thundered out twice as fast, our whole Line poured in a deadly volley, the standard bearer fell, the advancing Rebels faltered, our fellows sprang forward & there was a short hand to hand conflict over the fallen flag, the bayonets being locked & the muskets clubbed for a moment, then our chaps got the standard & the Enemy fled, leaving the field, with their heaps of dead & wounded & cords of muskets in our hands. This was only a small part of the field of Battle, for the Rebs charged on our Corps at the same time of this fight with part of the 16th charged on the 15th, & also on the 4th Corps, captured some Artillery, but lost the heaviest in killed, wounded & prisoners that they have since Stone River. This was the only part of the battle that we saw, & so I have described it to you, & you may imagine the rest of the field from it. The Iowa Brigade of our Division is badly cut up, they fought back to back at one time, when attacked in front & rear, & actually jumped over their slight works seven times to repel assaults from their rear; as soon as they would drive them off from one side the Enemy would come up on the other, when they would "charge front to fire to the Rear," & jump over the protecting Earthworks. The 16th & 12th Wis. also were heavily engaged, but the Rebels did not succeed in breaking up a single Regt. of our old Corps, while whole Brigades of theirs were "wiped out," there being hardly a grease spot left of the Kentucky Brigade, which were the ones I saw fight. The Brigade of the 16th Corps that fought them and whose battle I have described is composed of the 66th Ills. (Gen. Ehringer's Regt.) 81st Ohio, & 12th Ills., Gen. McArthur's old Regt. (I had a talk with George last night & he is in splendid health & spirits, is to answer the letter he got from Sarah soon.) You may ask, what was out Battery doing in all this time? We stood at our posts during the first part of the fight in our rear & the rest of the time we were led around by Genl. Blair into 6 different positions, not being allowed to open at any of them. At last, when the heaviest of the fighting was over, a Rebel Battery, to cover the retreat, opened on our advancing skirmishes, when we were allowed to reply & after a few shots effectually silenced the Battery, I forgot to notice that when the fighting at first was beginning to be serious, Genl. McPherson rode down by us, going to the place where the Brigade I have mentioned was forming; he rode right through the line, out to the front where the skirmishing was going on, and before he suspected, was right among the advancing Enemy. They told him to halt, but he wheeled to escape, when they fired on him, & shot him through the breast. It was not 10 minutes after he passed us till he was hit. No language can tell the grief that fills the heart of every man in the Army of the Tennessee & especially do we of his old Corps feel his loss. Not a man of us but would willingly have given his own life to save that of our much loved young Commander.
[Postscript on page one] July 26th Couldn't finish this yesterday for we expected to move. All is quiet this M. Rec'd a five from Father yesterday, much obliged.
[Postscript on page five] I send you a piece of handkerchief, 2 stamps and a letter from the Rebel Genl. Tyler to Col. Walker of the 15th Tennessee, all found in the pockets of the dead Colonel, not by me though, for that is a thing I have never done yet, turn dead men's pockets outside in. The field over which the Rebs tried to charge was an awful sight afterwards, & we did not get in all the wounded Rebels till night of the next day.


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A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to forget the dream of takeing over the governorship seat of Bauchi state, saying the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has question to answer.
Nabena who is the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party said if not that there was a grand plot to rig out governor Mohammed Abubakar, how come APC won 21 State House of Assembly seats compare to PDP's 5 seat in the state in the election conducted on the same day?
According to Nabena, "The opposition PDP knew that that if rerun election is held it will loose the election to APC.
While justifying the need for rerun in election at the Tafawa/Balewa LGA, Nabena said the Returning Officer for the area, Mrs Dominion Anosike, told the world how she was intimidated and harassed while collating the results.
When asked what gave him confidence that APC will win the rerun if held, the APC national officer said: "I believe APC will win because APC has won 80 percent of the other elections except this election and this one has been declared inconclusive. Mark you, the results of Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area has not been announced. But I tell you, you will be surprised if the result had been announced. We certainly would have won, that is why they are trying to deny us of the victory. If the hoodlums had not disrupted the process at the centre we would have won Tafawa Balewa. So I believe we will win Tafawa Balewa again," he stated.


How to get kids and their families off smart phones and media devices and out of doors? That is the question.
Encouraging youth to become involved with conservation has been my take-away as a Coverts [volunteer], and as the chairperson of our local Conservation Commission. We've completed several terrific programs with the schools and the Scouts, but have yet to succeed in actually getting kids out on hiking trails. When I learned a couple of years ago about Exeter's Trail Passport System, I decided it was an idea our town could adapt.
"You simply follow the maps or trail markers to the passport rubbing location, (a post with an animal marker) place the corresponding page of your passport on top of the marker and make a rubbing with the side of a crayon or pencil. This will create a passport "stamp" for each site you visit. When you have collected all five stamps, pick up your certificate for a free "trail-blazer" ice cream at the Kingston Community Library!"
Our Trail Passport has taken time to get off the ground. New maps had to be made, descriptions written, rubbing plates and posts fabricated and installed, and a brochure design to be adapted. A special thanks goes out to Kristen Murphy, Natural Resource planner for the town of Exeter, who helped revise the Exeter booklet for Kingston. Or local ice cream stand loves the idea of being part of the Trail Passport, but we could not expect them to provide free ice cream, and so the Commission voted to fund the program from its public education budget line.
We're exited that that "Hike Kingston" is finally good to go. I hope to report a successful year in 2017, and if so, perhaps spread Exeter's inspired idea throughout the state.


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This is a presentation made to the Government of Canada's Task Force on Financial Literacy by Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL). The authors describe the cost to society of low literacy skills and provide information on literacy levels in Canada's provinces and territories.
MCL's recommendations include requiring financial institutions to use plain language in verbal and written dealings with vulnerable consumers; promoting greater flexibility in banking practices to reduce reliance on "payday loan" companies; and ensuring that any Canadian financial literacy strategy is inclusive and accessible to vulnerable populations.
The task force was established in 2009 and published its final report in February 2011. The report can be found at http://library.copian.ca/item/9167.
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Micro-scale online newsrooms are our new city watchdogs. Can we keep them alive?
Last October, reporter Mark Reutter broke a story about a shady deal between Baltimore's highest public officials and a politically connected contractor. In the process, he quite possibly saved residents of Charm City and surrounding Baltimore County upwards of $100 million.
One day, Reutter got a call from a source who told him about a lucrative contract to replace 400,000 water meters in the city and county with wireless "smart meters." According to the source, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the city's Board of Estimates were about to hand the contract to a company, Dynis LLC, which had little experience with this sort of work. This, despite the fact that the city had a second bid from a qualified contractor, with a price tag that was less than half of Dynis' $185 million proposal.
Hours of rifling through public documents revealed that Dynis had ties to the man Reutter had previously identified as the Mayor's top 2011 campaign donor — businessman James "J.P." Grant, who ran the Baltimore Grand Prix car race in 2012 and 2013. Grant stood to make a handsome profit on the Dynis proposal, which Reutter estimated could ultimately cost ratepayers upwards of $250 million, more than a tenth of the city's total annual budget. Meanwhile, a third, even lower bid had been thrown out on a technicality.
Reutter followed the story for a month, cranking out a dozen articles in all, revealing, among other things, that the selection process seemed to be rigged to allow the Board of Estimates to select whomever it wanted, regardless of the price. In the end, facing a rising wave of unflattering media attention and growing public outrage, the board awarded the contract to the lower bidder.
It's a classic example of how a journalist, willing to put in hours of meticulous labor, can change the course of events for a city and its residents. It's also an illustration of a growing trend in urban media: Reutter's stories didn't appear in the city's flagship daily newspaper, the Baltimore Sun. In fact, the Sun at first refused to touch the story, despite entreaties from concerned residents. Instead, the stories appeared on a scrappy, shoe-leather website called Baltimore Brew.
In the past six years, since the Great Recession blew another hole in the hull of foundering urban news outlets, American journalists have patched together a ragtag fleet of lifeboats and makeshift rafts, platforms where they can do the work critical to upholding local democracy. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center's Journalism Project found 438 small digital news organizations nationwide, fully 85 percent of which have popped up since 2005. (Pew did not count citizen bloggers.) A majority of these had three staffers or less, many of them refugees from legacy news outlets. More than half said they focus on local or hyperlocal news, while 45 specialize in investigative journalism. The implications for cities are profound.
But while organizations like Baltimore Brew have picked up crucial (if unsexy) beats such as schools and police policy, uncovered serious political scandals, and helped communities weather environmental catastrophe, their continued existence is far from certain. Many, but not all, of these outfits are non-profits, and almost without exception, they operate on a shoestring, based out of co-working spaces and staffers' living rooms. While the creators of these sites are getting more and more business savvy, they continue to struggle to make ends meet.
More than a decade after traditional news outlets began their collapse, and five years into a national experiment in small-scale community journalism, the question remains: Can we find a way to support the media organizations that sustain our cities?
The story in Baltimore offers a glimpse of how the media is evolving in many American cities.
Baltimore's old media fell on hard times long before the Great Recession. The Baltimore News American, for years the city's largest paper, with roots tracing back to the 1700s, shut its doors in 1986. The Evening Sun, where Mark Reutter got his start, published its last edition in 1995, a victim of what a Sun obituary called "evening paper syndrome" — the loss of readers to morning papers as jobs shifted from blue- to white-collar and people moved en masse from the city to its suburbs. The Sun itself went through a series of ownership changes, reorganizations and downsizings. The 2007 financial collapse, which sent the paper's owner, the Chicago-based Tribune Company, into bankruptcy, nearly destroyed it.
"These days, the vast Sun newsroom looks grossly underpopulated," said a 2009 Baltimore magazine article. "Like New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, you can see whole sections that were clearly once vital but now have been left to wither." The story could have just as easily described parts of Baltimore, gutted by white flight, the drug trade and neglect.
But Baltimore is a writer's town. Journalism runs in the veins of the city, which has given rise to such greats as H. L. Mencken, Alice Steinbach and David Simon, the creator of the HBO series The Wire and a former Sun reporter. As the old media giants waned, some local reporters moved on to other cities or landed jobs at national publications a train ride away in Washington, D.C. But others stayed put, creating new outlets for their work. Many of these upstart news organizations vanished as quickly as they'd appeared, but a few, including Baltimore Brew, Mark Reutter's outfit, have survived.
The Brew was started in 2009 by another Evening Sun veteran, Fern Shen, who spent 17 years as a staff writer on the Washington Post metro desk, where she covered schools, crime, and local and state government. She started the Brew as a modestly customized WordPress blog, funding it largely out-of-pocket, in response to what she saw as a need for more local reporting as the Sun faded.
Fern Shen built an indy news operation that's scooping traditional media in Baltimore.
Working from her kitchen table, Shen started making calls and telling stories. The site attracted "a rotating cast of freelancers, contributors and college interns," she says. Most, including Shen, were unpaid, but the site began to generate a trickle of revenue from advertising sales, small donations from readers and a Kickstarter campaign in 2012 that raised just over $24,000. Eventually, Shen was able to bring on Reutter as full-time senior reporter and editor, paying him a modest salary (he says it amounts roughly to minimum wage).
Shen and Reutter have made waves. In one case, a neighborhood's campaign to replace a defunct supermarket was being hampered by Rite Aid, which had a historic deed to the property. City officials knew about the problem, but were doing nothing to fix it, despite the community's protests. The Brew brought the story to light, and it was finally resolved. In another case, a series of articles on the deplorable conditions in a public senior housing complex sparked community meetings and a campaign to reform housing and security practices.
And the Brew has had some recent financial successes, too. In May, the Abell Foundation (named for the man who founded the Baltimore Sun, Arunah S. Abell) announced that it will give the Brew an $80,000 grant to hire a community reporter "to give us more boots on the ground in city neighborhoods," Shen says, and a "chief revenue officer," who will help boost advertising sales, search for more grant money and launch a membership program.
Still, Shen says that even with the grant money, she will likely pay herself very little, if anything at all. And Brew staffers have been irritated lately by old media's recycling of their work without attribution — a practice that makes it difficult for the public to see where those stories originated, and could make fundraising more difficult.
Similar stories are playing out in cities across the country.
The news site Oakland Local launched in 2009 in response to what its three founders felt was shallow, imbalanced reporting of the New Year's Day police shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant. The idea was to create a community-driven vehicle for watchdog reporting on the police and other issues important to Oakland residents yet often overlooked by Bay Area media.
A data-driven reporting project published this April on the Local's Oakland Police Beat revealed that the department's most decorated officers were involved in more shootings, and were the subject of more lawsuits over accusations of brutality and other misconduct, than their peers. Shortly after the story appeared, one of the most notorious officers resigned, says editor-publisher Susan Mernit.
Oakland Local has received a number of grants from national foundations. And in May, the site's non-profit parent, the Center for Media Change, won Google's Bay Area Impact Challenge. The center will receive $500,000 to fund Hack the Hood, a project that prepares local high school students for jobs in the tech economy by teaching them to build websites for local businesses.
Yet Mernit, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur and business leader, says the organization struggles to fund the basic operations. She and Oakland Local's one other staffer are paid, although "badly," she says. Ad sales have been stagnant. And a fundraising campaign to support coverage of schools last year was a dismal failure: The group didn't even recoup the cost of a promotional video it produced for the campaign.
Sheepshead Bites had held steady for a community that had been blown right off its moorings, but the storm left it compromised, too.
In New Orleans, Karen Gadbois, founder of the website The Lens, broke a major story about government corruption surrounding programs designed to rehab or demolish houses damaged in Hurricane Katrina. The story, which became a multi-part investigative series, won Gadbois and local TV reporter Lee Zurik the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, a Peabody and a gold medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors.
The Lens (co-founded by Next City Executive Editor Ariella Cohen who remains on the board of The Lens) has grown since its early days to cover schools, the environment and politics, as well as government transparency issues. It now has 10 employees and partnerships with the city's daily newspapers and the local NPR affiliate WNO. But Gadbois, too, says funding has been hard to come by.
As an example, she cites the Lens' Charter School Reporting Corps. After Hurricane Katrina laid waste to the city in 2005, New Orleans swept away what was left of its underperforming public school system, replacing it with a network of charter schools. Traditional media struggled to cover the newly decentralized system, but the Lens, with startup funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, set up a network of freelance writers who covered 46 charter school boards that oversee more than 75 public schools in the city. The reporting won acclaim nationally, but it was also criticized by charter school proponents and opponents alike. Its grant funding spent and local financial support difficult to come by, the program was put on hiatus at the end of the 2014 school year.
Ned Berke, who created local news website Sheepshead Bites in South Brooklyn in 2008, has seen his ups and downs, too. As Superstorm Sandy whirled toward his hometown, Berke created a resource page where locals could find information on how to prepare, notices from the city, a storm-related Twitter feed and a live video of the nearby bay. When the storm hit, Berke was one of the only people still reporting from the front lines, dictating stories to a colleague over his cell phone when the floodwaters knocked out his power and Internet service.
After the waters receded, the website became a clearinghouse for people trying to find missing loved ones and piece their lives back together. Berke organized an information fair where local businesses could learn about grants and other recovery assistance.
Sheepshead Bites had held steady for a community that had been blown right off its moorings, but the storm left it compromised, too. While a corporate newspaper could turn to a parent company in such an emergency situation, Berke was on his own facing down a dwindling operating budget as desperate local businesses stopped paying for ads. Pre-Sandy, Sheepshead Bites had six staffers, most of them part-time. These days, it's just Berke, a few freelancers and a couple of interns.
Most of Berke's peers come from old-school publications where there was a strict, church-and-state separation between newsrooms and advertising sales. They got into journalism because they wanted to tell stories, to uphold the promise of the Fourth Estate, not because they wanted to start a business.
As news startups began to proliferate following the financial crash, a handful of national foundations, including the Patterson and Knight foundations, realized that these organizations were filling a critical role in their communities, and began funding them. Just like food or education, information was a vital public resource in cities, the foundations saw. With that in mind, Knight sponsored a competition intended to match-make local philanthropists with these nascent non-profits. The Community Information Challenge poured $19 million into matching grants at 33 community foundations, resulting in a total of $69 million invested in local news and information projects over the competition's five-year run, which ended last year. Though limited, the experiment laid the groundwork for new relationships between journalists and local foundations that in many cities served to give legitimacy to this new species of local media.
At the same time, foundations and business insiders started national initiatives to help micronews sites develop business acumen. Patterson funded the annual Block by Block conference, a gathering of people trying to create sustainable business models for local news startups. In 2011, that conference spawned the group Local Independent Online Publishers, or LION, which serves as a networking hub and an information clearinghouse. The group now has 125 members and an annual conference.
Among them are larger sites that are downright thriving. Texas Tribune makes money by hosting corporate-sponsored events, and each year, the site seems to grow more robust. The Voice of San Diego and the Minneapolis news site MinnPost have become poster children of the membership-based "public radio" model, attracting support from a broad network of readers and supporters. Michele McLellan, founder of the Block by Block conference and a "circuit rider" for the Knight Community Information Challenge, has created a catalog called Michele's List that now includes more than 200 news startups nationwide that are making a serious attempt at creating a sustainable business model. In a recent survey, she found that 60 percent of local news sites reported an increase in revenue in 2013 over 2012.
Organizations like Baltimore Brew have picked up crucial (if unsexy) beats such as schools and police policy, uncovered serious political scandals, and helped communities weather environmental catastrophe.
But there's still a long way to go. Tucson Sentinel lists fewer than 100 current donors and sponsors and most are individuals who have given $100 or less. There are only a handful of ads on the site. The Sentinel's experience is closer to the norm than the experience of hyper-successful Texas Tribune or Voice of San Diego, which both started out with generous million-dollar-plus gifts from deep-pocketed local benefactors. According to a 2013 Pew survey, about half of non-profit news outlets generate at least 75 percent of their income from a single revenue stream, "almost always foundation grants." And foundations, as a rule, don't like long-term relationships.
That became apparent to Philadelphians in the spring when the non-profit news-site AxisPhilly folded after two years online. Launched out of the School of Media and Communication at Temple University with a $2.4 million grant from the William Penn Foundation, the site was birthed at a moment when many in the nation were looking to universities and philanthropists as stopgaps in the unraveling of local media. But despite the high hopes and a good deal of fantastic reporting (the site won the Online News Association's 2013 Award for General Excellence), Axis never quite managed to build the kind of local following of more grassroots sites like Baltimore Brew or attract the big-time donors of sites like the Tribune or Voice of San Diego. By May when its homepage froze, Axis' obituary had been all but published by its peers in the city's bare-knuckled news media.
And it's true that the Brew may flame out like so many other startups before it. But Baltimore needs publications like the Brew. At the Sun, a few old warhorses and a small cadre of hard-driving young reporters continue to produce fits of fine journalism. The same is true of the city's array of magazines and websites. But overall the city's media landscape looks as bleak as it ever has.
Now it's Baltimore's job to keep the Brew swinging, or lose what has become one of its most valuable resources.
Greg Hanscom is a senior editor at the non-profit news website Grist.org, where he writes about cities and climate change. He cut his teeth at High Country News, also a non-profit, and later edited the Baltimore city magazine Urbanite.


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Will There Be a 'Big Bang Theory' Spinoff? Chuck Lorre on the Show's Ending, Penny's Intelligence & More
Michael Maloney February 13, 2019 4:30 pm
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Creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre, executive producer Steve Holland, other producers, writers, directors and the cast of The Big Bang Theory are tasked with bringing the beloved series to a conclusion after a 12-year run.
Whether the gang scatters over the country to take new jobs or if they all end up sitting around Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny's (Kaley Cuoco) apartment eating Chinese food yet is unknown, but we're going to miss 'em a great deal.
Kaley Cuoco Shares Her Favorite 'Big Bang Theory' Episodes & Post-Finale Plans
Plus, the actress looks back on Penny's legacy and her mysterious last name.
TV Insider recently visited the set to talk to speak to Lorre and Holland about the show's upcoming finale, who we might be seeing again before TBBT concludes, what the turning point was in Sheldon (Jim Parsons) coming out of his shell, and a lot more. Read on to get their insights!
"'I know nothing!'" creator Chuck Lorre jokes in his best Sgt. Schultz (the late John Banner, Hogan's Heroes) as to how TBBT will come to a close. He does say that he's a big fan of other beloved sitcom finales.
"Everybody Loves Raymond's was beautiful," Lorre notes. "Newhart was the classic. Mary Tyler Moore had the hug – the hug!"
The cast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the series finale in 1977 (CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
Holland reveals that the finale actually hasn't been written yet, "but we know what it is."
In addition to the show's main cast, there's a group of beloved recurring guest stars that have visited the show over the years.
"There are people who are family to us like Wil Wheaton (who plays a version of himself)," Holland points out. "We shot [him] last week. There are other people who are a part of our family including Christine Baranski (Beverly Hofstadter) and Laurie Metcalf (Mary Cooper). We feel we need to get them back. As fans of the show ourselves, there are certain people we want to see one more time."
Whether his series are mega-hits like TBBT or not, Lorre says he tries to keep his writing focused on a central premise.
'The Big Bang Theory' Cast Celebrates Stage Dedication at Warner Brothers Studios
The cast and crew of one of CBS's biggest hits gathered for a special dedication ceremony on the set in Burbank.
"I've learned this lesson over and over again, going back to when I was a writer on Roseanne, and that is all these shows seem to have an underlying theme of family and affection, be it biological or through friendships," Lorre says. "There's a strong bond between the characters [on this show] and that's really inviting.
"I always wanted to sit at the bar on Cheers and hang with Cliff (John Ratzenberger) and Norm (George Wendt)," Lorre continues, adding he likes to think that some viewers feel that way about the comic book store on TBBT. "Even if it's not a real family, it approximates one."
Galecki and Cuoco were known to sitcom audiences through, respectively, Roseanne and Eight Simple Rules; it wasn't long before viewers embraced relative-newcomer Parsons as Sheldon, one of television's most beloved and iconic characters.
Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper (Michael Yarish/CBS)
Lorre knew he had a star and the perfect actor to bring Sheldon to life from day one.
TV Insider reminded him of what he said about Parsons at the inaugural TCA panel for the show in 2008, (which was "[Jim] got hit by electricity or lighting on the way in…he was amazingly good every time.")
"Every once in a while, you see greatness," Lorre adds now. "Something mind-boggling wonderful. When Jim auditioned for the part, it was an astonishing moment. I'll never forget it."
All the scientific terms used on the show haven't been always digestible for the average viewer and that was the kind of the point.
See the 'Big Bang Theory' Cast On Set of the Final Season (PHOTOS)
The series finale is fast approaching.
"It was almost like watching someone speak in a beautiful language," Holland notes of the characters talking science. "Chuck felt you don't have to understand the science to get the joke if part of the joke is the density of it. Then, it's really fun to watch other people be smart."
Penny served as the voice of the audience who found it odd the other characters could so easily and specifically talk about the worlds of comic books, super-hero movies, physics, astronomy, etc.
"It wouldn't be real for them to explain it to each other," Holland says. "They all know it so it was great to have an 'outsider' be there."
Once Penny was added to the mix (the character didn't appear in the original pilot), Lorre knew what role she'd serve.
Kaley Cuoco as Penny (Michael Yarish/Warner Bros. Entertainment)
"We had a plan from the get-go that Penny's intelligence would manifest differently from theirs," Lorre says. "Her intelligence was with people, environments, and social interactions when [the guys] were absolutely clues. Some scientists can do Pi to 80 decimals, but they can't talk to another human being in a social situation."
A turning point in Sheldon's development came in season 2 when he hugged Penny and gave her numerous gift baskets after she gifted him with a Leonard Nimoy-signed (and used!) Cheesecake Factory napkin!
"That was the beginning of Sheldon's arc," says Lorre. "Over the 12 years, these people around him socialized him. He went from being estranged and compartmentalized [to who he became] because these people never gave up on him. He became more dimensional, but he's still Sheldon. That's the magic of TV comedy."
How 'The Big Bang Theory' Cast Wants the Show to End
A consensus is building between the show's stars.
Viewers will still have Young Sheldon after TBBT wraps up, but there's talk of a spinoff from the OG series. Is it happening?
"Not that I'm aware of," shrugs Lorre, adding, "This feels like a wonderful way to take a bow and go before they start throwing fruit."
The sitcom creator has had to bid adieu to a lot of series, but he'll mostly miss TBBT more than he will other creations.
Bernadette (Melissa Rauch), Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg), Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki), Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Rajesh Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar) (Sonja Flemming/CBS)
"I got to watch the cast grow up," he says. "Twelve years is a big part of their lives. There's been a warm environment here for a long time. It's fun to be on this stage. It is healthy, people are free to try different things.
"The cast has been unbelievably professional," concludes Lorre. "That's hard to do when success hits as it did these guys. I've seen it do that, but not with the TBBT cast. They have such dignity and grace."
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Q: Loading mask, that disables underlying html elements I want to create loader mask for all page. I need to get the elements under the mask were not available. But now I can click buttons. you can see all on the image.
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Can't be clicked

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DLF Universal Limited considered being the pioneer and market leader in India's real estate business has completed projects of over 35 million sq. ft. across its residential, commercial and retail businesses. Founded in 1946, it has been responsible for the development of 21 urban colonies aggregating 5,816 acres, as well as an entire integrated 3,000-acre township - DLF City; and is now well poised to reinforce its strong national position with significant projects across major cities and emerging destinations of the country.
With over six decades of experience in the real estate business, the group is capitalizing on emerging market opportunities to deliver high-end facilities and projects to its wide base of customers by constantly upgrading its internal skills and resource capabilities. In line with its current expansion plans, the DLF Group has over 130 million sq. ft. of development across its businesses, including accomplished and on-going projects. This comprises over 28 million sq. ft. of projects that the group has executed under its home, offices and shopping mall segments.
The success of the DLF Group can be attributed to its implementation of successful business models which include development of innovative business strategies, strengthening its professional resources and driving market penetration that is adaptive to local market needs.
The DLF Group is the only company in India in the Consumer validated category from the real estate sector to be awarded the distinction of 'Superbrand' ranking. And all this is due to its mammoth contribution to the real estate sector; that has not only made significant inputs in the residential and commercial property segment but has also made noteworthy advancement in pursuing new business opportunities in hotel, infrastructure and SEZs. With its joint venture with Laing O'Rourke, it plans to make its foray into the sectors of expressways and airports.
Exceeding over 250 million sq. ft. of accomplished projects across the country and 100 million sq.ft of on-going projects; DLF also plans to develop around 100,000 acres of land over the next couple of years, nationally. With the growth of the Indian economy and the increase in corporate Cushman & Wakefield and consumer incomes, combined with the growing foreign investment in the real estate sector, DLF envisages significant opportunities for growth in the realty business.
Six decades in the real estate business and reputation for providing prompt payment to landowners upon the acquisition of its land, developing and completing projects in a timely manner and conducting its business with transparency has created a relationship of trust with its customers and suppliers.
With its extensive land reserves under development aggregated 1,372 acres representing approximately 102 million square feet of developed area or area available for development; it is estimated that it will be able to develop over 118 million square feet of saleable or lettable area.
Besides that, the strategic positioning of its projects and scale of operations make DLF the indispensable leader in the real estate business. Also, innovative techniques and offering new designs and concepts in real estate developments make DLF stand out amongst the real estate fraternity.
Delhi Land & Finance, or DLF, is a company set up by DLF chairman Mr.Kushal Pal Singh's father-in-law, Chaudhary Raghvendra Singh. The company at that time had developed no fewer than 21 colonies in Delhi between 1947 and 1961, which was taken over by the Delhi Development Authority. That had forced DLF to diversify into batteries, cables and so on.
Six decades later, DLF has invested close to Rs 80,000 crore in projects running into 100 million square feet. The group has made remarkable contribution in the evolution of the sleepy adjacent city of Gurgaon to the 'investor's destination' of India. Their foresightedness in identifying Gurgaon as the next logical extension of Delhi proved to be their biggest advantage, as they were the ones to make the first move in Gurgaon real estate.
However, DLF's role in confirming the visit of Jack Welch, the CEO of GE to India on the invitation of Rajiv Gandhi the then Prime Minister of India proved to be the biggest turnaround for DLF and Mr. K. P. Singh. Welch was not only struck by the country's trained manpower and started thinking in terms of outsourcing back office work to India; but also set up GE's first office at Gurgaon.
Almost overnight, Gurgaon had turned from a sleepy village to a throbbing hub of commercial activity. DLF which started its business then with a new lease has definitely come a long way since then - from townships, shopping malls and commercial space to hotels, special economic zones and infrastructure projects.


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Intel renames McAfee software, John McAfee "elated"
Intel is changing the name of its McAfee anti-virus software to remove the association to security software enfant terrible John McAfee.
Michelle Starr
Intel is changing the name of its McAfee anti-virus software to remove the association to security software enfant terrible John McAfee — who couldn't be more delighted.
(Screenshot by CBSi)
It's been years since John McAfee, founder of the McAfee Association in 1987 and anti-virus software pioneer, has had anything to do with the company. After departing a multi-millionaire in 1994, he's worked on many different start-ups — and lived a life of strange, dissolute luxury.
After making headlines in 2012 for his alleged involvement in a murder (which he has since denied on his website), though, McAfee's life took a strange turn — and it seems Intel, which purchased McAfee in 2010, wishes to dissociate its brand from the name. At CES earlier this week, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced that the software would be renamed Intel Security.
Everything else will remain the same — including the red shield — and the rebrand is expected to take about a year.
"I think at the heart of it is that we always had planned on consolidating our brand to the Intel brand," said McAfee chief technology officer Mike Fey. "The McAfee shield is what's known across the globe. In some locations, they can't even pronounce McAfee correctly. So, that's what drove us."
John McAfee, who last year released a rather peculiar video detailing tips for uninstalling McAfee software, was delighted at the news.
"I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet. These are not my words, but the words of millions of irate users," he told the BBC. "My elation at Intel's decision is beyond words."
Discuss: Intel renames McAfee software, John McAfee "elated"


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The Admissions and Continued Occupancy Plan lays out the regulations and standards by which any Public Housing Authority (PHA) must run the tenant application process, choose tenant and manage occupancy.
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Acronyms used in Public Housing.
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Overview Of The Admissions and Continued Occupancy Plan
Plan Chapter 1
The PHA receives its operating subsidy for the public housing program from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The PHA is not a federal department or agency. A public housing agency (PHA) is a governmental or public body, created and authorized by state law to develop and operate housing and housing programs for low-income families. The PHA enters into an Annual Contributions Contract with HUD to administer the public housing program. The PHA must ensure compliance with federal laws, regulations and notices and must establish policies and procedures to clarify federal requirements and to ensure consistency in program operation.
This chapter contains information about the PHA and its programs with emphasis on the public housing program. It also contains information about the purpose, intent and use of the plan and guide.
Download chapter 1 to learn more about the admissions and continued occupancy plan which is outlined in the following sections on this page.
This chapter explains the laws and HUD regulations requiring PHAs to affirmatively further civil rights and fair housing in all federally-assisted housing programs. The letter and spirit of these laws are implemented through consistent policy and procedures. The responsibility to further nondiscrimination pertains to all areas of the PHA's public housing operations.
Download chapter 2 to learn more about nondiscrimination policies related to persons with disabilities, and prohibition of against limited English proficiency persons.
The PHA is responsible for ensuring that every individual and family admitted to the public housing program meets all program eligibility requirements. This includes any individual approved to join the family after the family has been admitted to the program. The family must provide any information needed by the PHA to confirm eligibility and determine the level of the family's assistance.
Download chapter 3 to learn more about housing eligibility.
Application, Waiting List and Tenant Selection
When a family wishes to reside in public housing, the family must submit an application that provides the PHA with the information needed to determine the family's eligibility. HUD requires the PHA to place all eligible families that apply for public housing on a waiting list. When a unit becomes available, the PHA must select families from the waiting list in accordance with HUD requirements and PHA policies as stated in its Admissions and Continued Occupancy Policy (ACOP) and its annual plan.
The PHA is required to adopt a clear approach to accepting applications, placing families on the waiting list, and selecting families from the waiting list, and must follow this approach consistently. The actual order in which families are selected from the waiting list can be affected if a family has certain characteristics designated by HUD or the PHA to receive preferential treatment.
HUD regulations require that the PHA comply with all equal opportunity requirements and it must affirmatively further fair housing goals in the administration of the program [24 CFR 960.103, PH Occ GB p. 13]. Adherence to the selection policies described in this chapter ensures that the PHA will be in compliance with all relevant fair housing requirements, as described in Chapter 2.
This chapter describes HUD and PHA policies for accepting applications, managing the waiting list and selecting families from the waiting list. The PHAs policies for assigning unit size and making unit offers are contained in Chapter 5. Together, Chapters 4 and 5 of the ACOP comprise the PHA's Tenant Selection and Assignment Plan (TSAP).
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Occupancy Standards & Unit Offers
Occupancy standards are established by the PHA to ensure that units are occupied by families of the appropriate size. This policy maintains the maximum usefulness of the units, while preserving them from underutilization or from excessive wear and tear due to overcrowding. Part I of this chapter explains the occupancy standards. These standards describe the methodology and factors the PHA will use to determine the size unit for which a family qualifies, and includes the identification of the minimum and maximum number of household members for each unit size. This part also identifies circumstances under which an exception to the occupancy standards may be approved.
In selecting a family to occupy a particular unit, the PHA may match characteristics of the family with the type of unit available, for example, number of bedrooms [24 CFR 960.206(c)].
HUD does not specify the number of persons who may live in public housing units of various sizes. PHAs are permitted to develop appropriate occupancy standards as long as the standards do not have the effect of discriminating against families with children [PH Occ GB, p. 62].
Although the PHA does determine the size of unit the family qualifies for under the occupancy standards, the PHA does not determine who shares a bedroom/sleeping room.
The PHA's occupancy standards for determining unit size must be applied in a manner consistent with fair housing requirements.
Download chapter 5 to learn more about how potential tenants are matched with available units.
Income & Rent Determinations
A family's annual income is used to determine their income eligibility for the public housing program and is also used to calculate the amount of the family's rent payment. The PHA will use the policies and methods described in this chapter to ensure that only income-eligible families receive assistance and that no family pays more or less rent than is required under the regulations.
Download chapter 6 of the plan to learn more about how your income impacts what your rent will become.
Verfication
The PHA must verify all information that is used to establish the family's eligibility and level of assistance and is required to obtain written authorization from the family in order to collect the information. Applicants and program participants must cooperate with the verification process as a condition of receiving assistance. The PHA must not pass on the cost of verification to the family.
The PHA will follow the verification guidance provided by HUD in Notice PIH 2010-19 and any subsequent guidance issued by HUD. This chapter summarizes those requirements and provides supplementary PHA policies.
Download chapter 7 to learn more about the verification process.
Leasing & Inspections
Public housing leases are the contractual basis of the legal relationship between the PHA and the tenant. All units must be occupied pursuant to a dwelling lease agreement that complies with HUD regulations.
HUD regulations require the PHA to inspect each dwelling unit prior to move-in, at move-out, and annually during the period of occupancy. In addition, the PHA may conduct additional inspections in accordance with PHA policy.
Download chapter 8 to learn more about leasing and inspection.
Reexaminations
The PHA is required to reexamine each family's income and composition periodically, and to adjust the family's rent accordingly. PHAs must adopt policies for conducting annual and interim reexaminations that are consistent with regulatory requirements, and must conduct reexaminations in accordance with such policies [24 CFR 960.257(c)].
The frequency with which the PHA must reexamine the income and composition of a family depends on whether the family pays income-based rent or flat rent. HUD requires the PHA to offer all families the choice of paying income-based rent or flat rent at least annually. The PHA's policies for offering families a choice of rents are located in Chapter 6.
Download chapter 9 to learn more about annual and interim examinations.
Pets Including Service Animals
Plan Chapter 10
This chapter explains the PHA's policies on the keeping of pets and describes any criteria or standards pertaining to the policies. The rules adopted are reasonably related to the legitimate interest of the PHA to provide a decent, safe and sanitary living environment for all tenants, and to protect and preserve the physical condition of the property, as well as the financial interest of the PHA.
Download chapter 10 to learn more about pet policies including service animals.
This chapter explains HUD regulations requiring PHAs to implement a community service program for all nonexempt adults living in public housing.
Download chapter 11 to learn more about community service programs including both requirements and implementation.
Tenant Transfer
The PHA may require the tenant to move from the unit under some circumstances. There are also emergency circumstances under which alternate accommodations for the tenant must be provided, that may or may not require a transfer.
The tenant may also request a transfer, such as a request for a new unit as a reasonable accommodation.
The PHA must have specific policies in place to deal with acceptable transfer requests.
Download chapter 12 to learn about tenant transfer policy.
Either party to the dwelling lease agreement may terminate the lease in accordance with the terms of the lease. A public housing lease is different from a private dwelling lease in that the family's rental assistance is tied to their tenancy. When the family moves from their public housing unit, they lose their rental assistance. Therefore, there are additional safeguards to protect the family's tenancy in public housing.
Likewise, there are safeguards to protect HUD's interest in the public housing program. The PHA has the authority to terminate the lease because of the family's failure to comply with HUD regulations, for serious or repeated violations of the terms of the lease, and for other good cause. HUD regulations also specify when termination of the lease is mandatory by the PHA.
When determining PHA policy on terminations of the lease, the PHA must consider state and local landlord-tenant laws in the area where the PHA is located. Such laws vary from one location to another, and these variances may be either more or less restrictive than federal law or HUD regulation.
Download chapter 13 to learn about lease termination by either party as well as notification requirements.
Filing A Grievance
When the PHA makes a decision that has a negative impact on an applicant family, the family is often entitled to appeal the decision. For applicants, the appeal takes the form of an informal hearing. HUD regulations do not provide a structure for or requirements regarding informal hearings for applicants (except with regard to citizenship status, to be covered in Part II). This part discusses the PHA policies necessary to respond to applicant appeals through the informal hearing process.
Download chapter 14 to learn about filing grievances and informal hearing procedures for applicants and public housing residents.
The PHA is committed to ensuring that funds made available to the PHA are spent in accordance with HUD requirements.
Chapter 15 covers HUD and PHA policies designed to prevent, detect, investigate and resolve instances of program abuse or fraud. It also describes the actions that will be taken in the case of unintentional errors and omissions.
Download chapter 15 to learn about preventing and detecting program abuse as well as corrective measures.
This chapter discusses administrative policies and practices that are relevant to the activities covered in this ACOP. The policies are discussed in seven parts as described below:
Part I: Setting Utility Allowances. This part describes how utility allowances are established and revised. Also discussed are the requirements to establish surcharges for excess consumption of PHA-furnished utilities.
Part II: Establishing Flat Rents . This part describes the requirements and policies related to establishing and updating flat rent amounts.
Part III: Repayment of Family Debts. This part contains policies for recovery of monies that have been underpaid by families, and describes the circumstances under which the PHA will offer repayment agreements to families. Also discussed are the consequences for failure to make payments in accordance with a repayment agreement.
Part IV: Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS). This part describes the PHAS indicators, how PHAs are scored under PHAS, and how those scores affect a PHA.
Part V: Record Keeping. All aspects of the program involve certain types of record-keeping. This part outlines the privacy rights of applicants and participants and record retention policies the PHA will follow.
Part VI: Reporting and Record Keeping for Children with Environmental Intervention Blood Lead Level. This part describes the PHA's reporting responsibilities related to children with environmental intervention blood lead levels that are living in public housing.
Part VII: Violence against Women Act (VAWA): Notification, Documentation, and Confidentiality. This part contains key terms used in VAWA and describes requirements related to notifying families about their rights and responsibilities under VAWA; requesting documentation from victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and maintaining the confidentiality of information obtained from victims.
Download chapter 16 to learn about the various program administrative topics described above.
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